https://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/forum/62-unix-linux-amp-open-source-software/enChrome OShttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/60130-chrome-os/
Interesting twist with Chrome OS, the Linux-based Google-fied OS which was supposed replace the bloated Windows and Mac OS in your life. Now you can run Windows 10 on Chrome OS machine, albeit the higher end ones with the storage space to support it. Which is interesting considering Google OS is supposed to replace Windows but now you can install Windows on the same machine. Ironically Google have copied the Apple BootCamp method of running Windows 10, since you can't run VMs on Google OS (ignoring Android app support).

]]>60130Thu, 28 Feb 2019 01:27:17 +0000how to surf the nets adult sites with out viruses and spywarehttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/57219-how-to-surf-the-nets-adult-sites-with-out-viruses-and-spyware/I have a problem with my dad he loves to surf adult sites but i am sick of getting calls from him saying my screens gone blue with lots of writing on it grrrrrr what program is simple for him to use and not need virus protection or do scheduled scans .I am thinking something like mint what do you guys recomend please .]]>57219Sat, 29 Aug 2015 07:44:14 +0000How to run Linux natively on Windows 10https://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/59733-how-to-run-linux-natively-on-windows-10/

1. Open the powershell as admin and type:
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux
You'll need to reboot after that.

]]>59733Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:31:23 +0000Tips for securing public-facing SFTP?https://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/59494-tips-for-securing-public-facing-sftp/Been hacking away at this issue for a few days, and I think it's in a state where I'm happy with it, but just wanted to pick y'all's brains to see if I've missed anything.

I have ProFTPd configured as an SFTP server, and using mod_sql for authentication.

When a user logged in to the website clicks a "Get FTP login" button, a row is inserted to (or updated in) ProFTPd's users table, and the user can log in to SFTP with the generated credentials. These credentials expire after 12 hours.

The trouble I was having was that since SFTP looks like an SSH service, I'm getting hundreds if not thousands of attempted connections a day trying credentials like "root" "www-data" "admin" "staff" etc etc.

I have configured fail2ban on the machine, such that repeated unsuccessful auth attempts will render the client's IP blocked. I also keep the VM up to date with a daily "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade".

Is there anything else you guys can think of?

]]>59494Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:28:43 +0000[Guide]How to Fix Ubuntu 16.04 Desktop Restart After Shutdownhttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/59428-guidehow-to-fix-ubuntu-1604-desktop-restart-after-shutdown/Recently I have meet this problem that when I shutdown my laptop, Ubuntu auto restart and cannot shut down. I tried some methods around internet, and I see many other people have troubles with this. Then I want to share with anyone here who have the same problem with their computer. I tracked this for somedays, and I know that it worked successful)

( If I made this topic wrong, please remove it, thanks)

If you use hp probook then, it may happen to your laptop when using Ubuntu.

Type in terminal sudo nano /etc/grub/modules then add apm power_off=1 under line lp. Save and close the terminal.

Then I tried these two steps: And it worked.

Step 2: sudo update-grub

Step 3: Turn off wifi, wired network

hope that help.

]]>59428Wed, 31 Jan 2018 05:04:24 +0000Grub installation failed help please windows 10 dual booothttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/59316-grub-installation-failed-help-please-windows-10-dual-booot/.I have followed all your steps from briotec09 but i almost I get to the end of the installation then i get this error grub package failed to install into /target/Can you help please]]>59316Sun, 24 Sep 2017 06:06:30 +0000Switching to the Master Racehttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/57800-switching-to-the-master-race/So I want to switch my PC over to Arch (as my main OS at least), and I was just wondering how I would go about doing so with the least amount of head smashing and keep most of the features of windows, so can anybody help me out?]]>57800Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:31:41 +0000When will I ever make the switch? (Never?)https://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/57666-when-will-i-ever-make-the-switch-never/Hi,

I've always wanted to try Linux. Been trying since 1996 with early versions of Red Hat. At the time the fun was always trying to install it properly. Never lasted though as a gamer I always switched back to windows.Even later when I thought to myself "no gaming", I found it hard to use without native support for Adobe products. Tried dual booting, but the fun had always been setting it up, and modifying the desktop experience with nice effects.

The challenge was nice since I've always only had ATI card since 3Dfx Voodoo :)

I found that Ati/AMD GPU never failed me but I had once or twice a bad experience with Nvidia cards. I know that it's not the nvidia chips, but rather the manufacturers. I've always had Saphire and ASUS ati/amd cards and always very happy with them.

Now it's been a long time and I've always been trying to install and run linux properly, but my choice of graphics card has always failed me. And on top of it Adobe products, and my love for games. Tried many distros from Ubuntu to Debian to Fedora and LinuxMint.

Last night I thought I try again and downloaded the latest Ubuntu version. I thought I'll check out the live dvd. No chance. I boot it, and end up with a blank screen. So my GPU failed me once again.

To be honest I've been using PCs for a very long time since my Amiga500 days and my first 386. Just saying that I've been through so much fixing failing systems, and I've come to the point were I just want things to work out of the box. Don't have the patience to fix things up.

I play games so I have my steam, I pay for Adobe cloud and I just want a system that can run these for me. It seems that I'll never be able to use a Linux system and that I'm stuck in the Windows world. Which to be honest has its flaws but works.

I know it's not the OS but the manufacturer support.

So will I ever switch to Linux? Not sure. Do I want to? Yes.. at least try it for a while but it seems that I need to go through the process of getting a new graphics card. And not only that, say I do get a new graphics card, then I'll have to go through the process of playing around with WINE etc just to get a few things working.

Anyway, I thought I share my thoughts since I tried once again with no luck.

]]>57666Mon, 06 Jun 2016 09:10:19 +0000Ubuntu search not workinghttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/57235-ubuntu-search-not-working/I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS and the search feature with the icon up the top left is not working. It's as if there is a windows but nothing in it. Any ideas?]]>57235Tue, 08 Sep 2015 09:42:30 +0000Writing new Raspbian image filehttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/57611-writing-new-raspbian-image-file/Hi all

Having difficulties writing any images on to a SD cards with my Windows 10 Laptop. Using win32diskimager, I have no errors yet when the write is complete - it actually writes nothing to the card itself. The purpose is making new OS image for my Raspberry Pi. I've done this plenty times before, yet now nothing works. Have used diffierent SD cards, different Raspberry Pi boards.. to no avail. Any help would be appreciated

Well, this seems to affect most Linux and also recent Android versions.

However, it seems exploiting the glitch isn't terribly simple.

]]>57448Thu, 21 Jan 2016 02:49:25 +0000Shellshock Exploithttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/56589-shellshock-exploit/Heard of the heartbleed bug? This one's an even bigger deal. Apparently, there's a newly discovered exploit in the BASH command line that interprets a string of characters or a string variable as an actual command in a very specific syntax.

Been a while since I've used BASH scripting, so this syntax isn't exactly fresh in my head, but it still looks familiar.

Enough to make me think twice about running an outdated version of GNU/Linux. Much more alarming for system admins and web servers that use GNU tools, or for users who log in regularly to web servers that use GNU tools.

]]>56589Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:29:04 +0000Firefox Browser now DRMhttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/55979-firefox-browser-now-drm/Last night Adobe activated DRM on all Firefox browsers in sandbox mode. Meaning any content can be rejected for viewing regardless of where you live.

Munich City Council plan to make Ubuntu discs available as a ‘replacement for Windows XP’ – Microsoft’s 11-year old operating system for which support officially ends in April of next year.

The proactive effort is been billed as an attempt to ‘prevent electronic waste’ from discarded computers that, whilst still serviceable with an alternative OS, would fail to meet the requirements of Windows 7 or Windows 8.

It’s estimated that some 20 million German PC users are still running Windows XP.

Cue much celebration, then confusion all round. The issue is, the LTS won't be out till a month after, 13.10 will end support in july 2014 and 12.10 will end support in october 2014.

The only solution, we decided, was to get Munich to use 13.10 then show people how to upgrade.

]]>54638Thu, 04 Jul 2013 05:37:02 +0000Thunderbird 10 years oldhttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/56784-thunderbird-10-years-old/Yep TB is 10 years old today ,what an achievement for an Open Source project.

]]>56784Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:47:30 +0000Xfce 4.12 releasedhttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/56924-xfce-412-released/Xfce has had it's first release in about 2 years, 4.12. This has enough changes to warrant multiple releases, but the manpower/willpower to release anything has been lacking. The upstream release notes are at http://xfce.org/about/news/?post=1425081600

This will be in xubuntu 15.04 this week, and possibly a PPA for 14.04 sometime in the future.

Because of how it will be all hooked up (FTTP modem -> (?) -> cat5 though the house) now is the time to think about the something(s) to fill in the (?) part.

I was initially thinking of just using my old ADSL modem/router for the router and WiFi capibility.

But then I thought I could pop in some kind of Squid proxy, something to track internet usage, and possibly some other software, maybe a VPN, but I am open to other suggestions.

First up the software:

Squid proxy is mainly because I've wanted to set one up ever since I read about it in the mag. Basically no use for saving data; I'd estimate saving ~50Mb over a month, on a 100Gb cap.

The main thing is a piece of software to track internet usage by device. I have no idea what software is out there to do this.

Also, any suggestions on anything else. I want to keep this light and focused on network admin/reporting; I have a WHS for a bunch of stuff (file/media server, automated backups, remote desktop) and another linux server for dev purposes

But I'm guessing that what ever I use should have dual Ethernet ports as some kind of pass-though system.

Other than that I have an old 2nd gen Atom netbook that isn't (and can't) doing anyhitng useful right now that might be useful for this.

So, thoughts and ideas?Thanks in advance!

]]>56772Tue, 16 Dec 2014 00:10:30 +0000Ubuntu 2010 Dual Boothttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/56676-ubuntu-2010-dual-boot/Hello! I have been trying to dual boot ubuntu on my 2010 macbook for about a week now, but it is randomly freezing whenever I do something graphical. I installed it through a disk, and I partitioned my hard drive so there was enough space. Please help me, I would like to run it, because I think the UI is much cleaner and simpler than that of OS X and I prefer Ubuntu over OS X.

It seems the latest version of TB is extremely unstable and crashes a lot. Nearly lost all my email.

Its looks like TB is going down the same road as FF with rapid deployment of untested builds.

]]>56394Fri, 22 Aug 2014 00:04:47 +0000Ubuntu minecraft server EULAhttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/56134-ubuntu-minecraft-server-eula/I am running an ubuntu server to host a minecraft server and i was wondering how to accept the EULA, when i type cat eula.txt it just comes up with eula=false and i don't know how to change it to true, i have read the EULA and i will abide by these laws of minecraft, please help me accept the EULA]]>56134Fri, 04 Jul 2014 02:24:55 +0000Setting up Linux OS for multiple usershttps://forums.atomicmpc.com.au/topic/55947-setting-up-linux-os-for-multiple-users/I'm running all the wiring for this house and will be living in soon, and had this crazy idea about having one computer to share with multiple users (ie 1 pc for 3 or 4 bedrooms), to save them having a PC in each, including a Home theatre pc. My family members aren't all gamers, just myself and my brother and we both have our own laptops to do the job.

I've seen it done before on the internet, but is there any guide about setting it up out there on the web? Have been looking but to no avail so far.

So I have a small headless Ubuntu server running at home. It runs a SAMBA server which shares a huge collection of TV Shows on a RAID 5 array to anyone connected to hour home network.

I am using a Flexget and a Deluge deamon to download said TV Show torrents which are placed in the "Downloads" folder on the OS drive of the server. I then manually transfer them to RAID array and place them in the appropriate files.

Sidenote: Yes, I am aware that Flexget and Deluge can automagically place them in the appropriate folder, but that's beside the point.

I currently transfer them from the OS drive to the RAID array using my Windows PC connected to the SAMBA share folders. This means that the files are actually transferred from the Server OS drive to my computer then back to the RAID array, at least is looks that way by the huge amount of network activity and bandwidth usage that occurs when I copy said files. This means that my transfer rates are about 35 MB/s, which I presume is limited by my wired gigabit ethernet connection.

So, what I'm wondering is, is there some kind of program out there, that either runs on my PC or can be run remotely through Putty, that will allow me to remotely copy local (server) files, and provide me with some kind of GUI to do so? Therefore copying directly from the OS drive to the RAID array. I can obviously do this through Putty by using the cp command, or using rsync to recursively copy files, but a GUI would make it much easier.

I guess the best explanation of the function would be like running Windows Explorer on the Sever and connect to it on my PC via VNC.

"The GNOME Foundation is running out of money. The foundation no longer has any cash reserves so they have voted to freeze non-essential funding for running the foundation. They are also hunting down sponsors and unpaid invoices to regain some delayed revenue. Those wishing to support the GNOME Foundation can become a friend of GNOME."

And let's not even mention the Executive Director that came on, spent 1/4 or more of the foundation's money on pet political projects, then bailed.

But nah, seriously, it'd be a real shame if the disappeared. My experiences with Gnome desktop have always been positive, also choice is always good.